When to turn Excel into PDF
Send a quote or an invoice as a spreadsheet and the person on the other end can nudge a cell and change a figure, or open it with different column widths and watch the table fall apart. On a phone without Excel it may not open at all.
A PDF looks the same everywhere. This tool sends your file to our conversion server, where LibreOffice does the work, then hands back the PDF and deletes both copies.
How to use it
- 1Upload your spreadsheet. It takes xlsx, xls and ods.
- 2Press Convert to PDF. The server usually finishes in under two seconds.
- 3Download the PDF, or share it straight from the page.
Common questions
- Does this one stay in my browser too?
- No. Unlike the other tools here, this one sends your file to our conversion server, because turning a spreadsheet into a PDF is not something a browser can do. Both the original and the result are deleted as soon as the conversion finishes; nothing is kept.
- Will Korean, Japanese or Chinese text survive?
- Yes — the server has CJK fonts installed. If the exact font from your spreadsheet is not on the server it gets substituted with a close match, which can shift character widths slightly and make columns look a little off.
- My table is split across several pages.
- The conversion follows whatever print area your spreadsheet has set. Set the print range and scaling in the Page Layout view, save, and upload again.
- Can it read .hwp files?
- No. LibreOffice cannot open Hangul Word Processor files properly. Export a PDF from that program directly, or save as .docx and use the Word to PDF tool.
- Is there a size limit?
- 4MB. Quotes and invoices are usually a few hundred KB, so there is plenty of room. If your file is large because of embedded photos, compress the images and save again.